Word: bristols
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Chase and Sanborn early this year cut their expensive, expansive, one-hour variety show with Charlie McCarthy to 30 minutes and still kept its drawing power, they started something. Onto the chopping block last week went Bristol-Myers' wry-face Comedian Fred Allen; others will probably follow him at expiration of their contracts. Allen refused to pare his Town Hall to half its former length; looked around for a new backer...
More aptly than cold Quay or Rabelaisian Penrose, Joseph Ridgway Grundy, who lives in and owns Bristol, Pa., for 40-odd years has symbolized in Pennsylvania the well-fed forces of conservatism. Mr. Grundy, 77, still rosy of cheek and twinkly of eye behind round gold-rimmed spectacles, with his round, white-fringed face, round little body, is a combination of Pickwick and Foxy Grandpa. Last week Mr. Grundy was resting in Florida, but with the full onset of spring he is expected back soon in the once-beautiful riverfront village which industrialism has made into an ugly mill town...
...bombers Britain's (and the Allies') best bet is the big, rugged Vickers Wellington, a husky, reliable weight carrier with a top speed of 265 m. p. h., and the lighter Bristol Blenheim (about comparable in size to a Lockheed 12) with a maximum of 295. But both need fighter escorts, are not to be compared in speed with the new German Junkers Ju. 88K which has a top of 330 m. p. h., can show its heels to pursuit with any kind of start. To Ju. 88K, and the somewhat slower Heinkels and Dorniers, Britain has several...
...start of the war, but this letter did not say who authored the lines, and George VI simply used them without further research. The London Times readily turned up the letter, but it was only a casual epistle from a Mrs. J. C. M. Allen, of Clifton. Bristol, who said last week that she copied the lines from a 1938 Christmas card sent her by a Miss Dorothy Glover, also of Bristol. Miss Glover said her card was based on lines scribbled by her late father, Dr. Richard Glover, on the back of a post card. It appeared that...